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Primary and Secondary Colours Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 1: Primary and secondary colours · Set 455 · 40 questions
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Artist's tip (Two make one): Primary colours: red, yellow, blue — they cannot be mixed from other paints. Secondary colours: orange = red + yellow, green = blue + yellow, purple = red + blue. To find a missing colour, ask: which two primaries are inside this secondary colour?

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  1. 1.True or false: mixing red and yellow paint makes green. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.🎨 Is blue a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  3. 3.🎨 How many primary colours are mixed to make one secondary colour?
  4. 4.True or false: mixing blue and yellow paint makes orange. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.True or false: yellow is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange (d) blue
  7. 7.Which secondary colour has NO red in it? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange
  8. 8.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green (d) red
  9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) green (c) purple (d) orange
  10. 10.True or false: mixing blue and red paint makes orange. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? red + ? = purple (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue
  12. 12.🎨 Mix red and yellow paint. Which colour do you get? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple
  13. 13.Which secondary colour has NO blue in it? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple
  14. 14.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + yellow = green (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue
  15. 15.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? blue + ? = purple (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow
  16. 16.Which two paint colours mixed together make purple? (a) blue and yellow (b) red and yellow (c) yellow and red (d) blue and red
  17. 17.True or false: the paint sum ? + red = purple needs yellow. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) green (b) purple (c) yellow (d) orange
  19. 19.True or false: red is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) orange (c) red (d) green
  21. 21.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? red + ? = orange (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue
  22. 22.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + red = orange (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue
  23. 23.True or false: the paint sum ? + yellow = green needs blue. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red (b) yellow (c) orange (d) blue
  25. 25.Which two paint colours mixed together make purple? (a) red and yellow (b) yellow and red (c) red and blue (d) yellow and blue
  26. 26.Which secondary colour has NO yellow in it? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green
  27. 27.Which two paint colours mixed together make orange? (a) blue and red (b) red and blue (c) yellow and red (d) blue and yellow
  28. 28.🎨 Mix red and blue paint. Which colour do you get? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple
  29. 29.🎨 Is orange a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  30. 30.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow (d) green
  31. 31.Which two paint colours mixed together make orange? (a) red and blue (b) blue and red (c) yellow and blue (d) red and yellow
  32. 32.🎨 Is yellow a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) orange (c) yellow (d) blue
  34. 34.🎨 How many primary colours do painters mix with?
  35. 35.🎨 Is purple a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  36. 36.🎨 Mix yellow and red paint. Which colour do you get? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange
  37. 37.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red (d) purple
  38. 38.🎨 Is red a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  39. 39.🎨 Mix yellow and blue paint. Which colour do you get? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green
  40. 40.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

  1. False
  2. primary colour
  3. 2
  4. False
  5. False
  6. blue
  7. green
  8. red
  9. yellow
  10. False
  11. blue
  12. orange
  13. orange
  14. blue
  15. red
  16. blue and red
  17. False
  18. yellow
  19. False
  20. red
  21. yellow
  22. yellow
  23. True
  24. orange
  25. red and blue
  26. purple
  27. yellow and red
  28. purple
  29. secondary colour
  30. green
  31. red and yellow
  32. primary colour
  33. orange
  34. 3
  35. secondary colour
  36. orange
  37. purple
  38. primary colour
  39. green
  40. True

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